Maybe I didn't take it seriously enough, but I really didn't realize that this family was a thief at first.
I thought they picked up Yuri and adopted her, so the film was called Thief Family.
I thought they were just poor, kind and weak people at the bottom, living in no-nonsense corners between high-rise buildings, out of place with their surroundings.
I thought that Shota was really the child of Nobuyo and Aji, I thought that Hatsueda was really Aji's mother, I thought that Aki was really Nobuyo's sister, and I thought that this was really a family with a difficult life but a warm and loving relationship with blood relations.
Flat and straightforward daily life, poor but happy, crowded in a low house but not much to complain, I really hope they will eventually become a family. Aji does odd jobs on construction sites, Nobuyo works in a laundry, Hatsueda receives pension insurance, Aki works in a custom shop, Shota takes Yuri around the neighborhood, and the family lives an ordinary life in a dilapidated bungalow, occasionally listening to fireworks from the patio on the Sumida River.
But as the plot unfolds, I see Aji taking Shota with him to steal things; Nobuyo works in a laundry factory, and often takes care of things left in his clothes by customers; Although my grandmother has alimony, she still visits her ex-husband's stepson's house from time to time, and regularly extorts money in the name of worshipping her ex-husband along the way. I only learned that Aji and Nobuyo were not husband and wife, Aji killed Nobuyo's ex-husband in a legitimate defense during the dispute and fight, and two people with ex-convictions reported to the group to keep warm and survive; Aki and Nobuyo are not sisters, they make money by selling their hues in the custom industry, and she longs for the warmth of her elders from Hatsueda; Hatsueda and Nobuyo are not mother and daughter, when they go to the beach to play When Chueda told Nobuyo that she was actually quite good-looking, Nobuyo was a little ashamed to hide the excitement in her heart, and for a moment, she should have hoped that Hatsueda was really her mother; Yuri and Nobuyo are not mother and daughter, but when Negishi threatens Nobuyo to quit working at the laundry voluntarily by exposing the matter, she chooses to accept it because she has something she wants to guard.
Bringing back and leaving Yuri was a turning point for the thief family, Aji was hesitant, it was Nobuyo who decided to risk being sentenced to abduction to leave Yuri who suffered domestic violence, and Nobuyo hugged Yuri hard for fear of being taken away. Maybe it's maternal instinct, maybe it's from the hatred of the past that comes to mind, or maybe it's the scars on Yuri's body that are almost the same as hers. There is no blood relationship between them, a group of abandoned people form a family, and when everything is calm, there seems to be no regrets, a group of little people who struggle to survive at the bottom, no one cares.
Until Yuri's parents called the police to find her, Nobuyo still decided to let Yuri stay and defend the relationship, which was the moment when Nobuyo's selfishness to be a mother exploded. Until Xiangtai was caught "missing", the peace was finally broken. Shota's arrest has long been traceable, and the store owner has long known that Shota's family is stealing, but only when Shota teaches Ariri to steal things, he advises Shota not to teach her to do this, perhaps it is the conscience that has not been completely numb that Shota has been enlightened, and he begins to question the truth of what Aji said that only children who can't study at home go to school.
Shota was arrested, the family fell apart, and the ** who represents justice is the posture of the judge, and it is bound to dig out more criminal deeds to prove the ugly face of this family, they interrogate separately, force everyone to be questioned, and prove that they are right, and Yuri's parents pretend to be remorse in front of the camera, as if they are innocent victims. Naturally, because of the history of Aji and Nobuyo, the grandmother who passed away naturally was suspected by them of being the ** of the Aji couple; Because Nobuyo was unable to have children, Arisato and Shota were accused by them of abduction;
The pinnacle of the conflict is in the dialogue between Nobuyo and Miyabe:
Nobuyo's rhetorical question was deafening: "I picked up what someone else had abandoned." The forsaken is someone else, isn't it? We live with Hatsueda, who was abandoned by our son and his wife, and let Aki, who has nowhere to go, live together, and protect Shota and Rin-chan, and if we let them go, they may not be in this world. If this is a crime, then aren't those who abandon them even more sinful? ”
But Miyabe's retort was also loud, "Children need mothers." ”
Shinyo asked again: "If you give birth to a child, you will be considered a mother?" ”
Miyabe asked rhetorically: "If you don't give birth, won't you be a mother......”
In Miyabe's eyes, the inability to have children made Nobuyo not even qualified to be a mother, so she decided that Nobuyo was abducting Yuri because she wanted to be a mother.
But is it considered a mother to be born? The tears that burst out of Nobuyo's eyes were distressing, her mother gave birth to her and abandoned her, is she worthy of being called a mother? If children could also choose their parents, wouldn't everything be different? Nobuyo can't give blood, but he gives Yuri and Shota love that their biological parents didn't give. Just because she can't have children, is there a motive for abduction?
On the other hand, Azhi's words are also very embarrassing and helpless, it is the father's responsibility to educate the child what is right and what is wrong, but he lost his father since he was a child, what else can he teach besides teaching Xiangtai this trick of stealing?
So, judging from the mainstream judging standards of society, Nobuyo and Aji are both people who are not worthy of being parents, and people who are not worthy of being called father and mother, when Shinyo figured this out, she told him the address of Shota and the license plate of the car, and asked him to find his biological parents, even if she rarely saw him once after she was imprisoned, even if she was reluctant in her heart.
When Shinyo wiped her tears, I seemed to understand what my grandmother said that Shinyo was also very good-looking, really, very beautiful, with a tenacious face that refused to admit defeat, and when she smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were like crescent moons and dimples, and she was stoic and stubborn with tears, just like her unrequited love for the children, and her incomparable tolerance for Aji, who was lazy and lazy. I remembered this actor Sakura Ando. Not only Nobuyo, Aji, and Hatsueda are the same, their ordinariness looks kind and harmless, but a bunch of small illnesses are not annoying, and even a little funny and pitiful.
Kiki Shirin's grandmother, even if she is abandoned by her husband, she bruises and sews clothes for the reason, and she is worried that she will not be able to wet the bed and sleep well, and she knows that Aki's mind encourages her to live according to her own ......Whether it's a pension or blackmailing a stepson, it's ......She left all this to this family in the end, and before she left this world, she only had a thank you to these family members.
Masaya Nakagawa plays Aji's stealing nature, and even this is a little bit of livelihood skill that he is proud of, although he does criminal things, he tries to care for the child in his own way, and strives to get the child's approval. The nest is just right, but there is no sense of sadness and decadence, and the chatter is a little cute.
Xiangtai returned to school in the welfare home, got on the right track, and silently called Aji Dad in his heart when he said goodbye; From the back to the tree, back to the original family, is still the day of not being loved, the only change is in the windowsill lonely counting marbles looking into the distance and waiting for her to shout her.
After all, the short-term fetters caused by love can't match the justification of blood, good is true, love is also true, and the evil of the past is also true, but who cares about their life and death? Who would have thought of reaching out and pulling a hand in the quagmire under survival?
* After reading it, the sadness lingers for a long time. I don't want to give up this family. They have nothing left, only love, and now even these are lost, if grandma is still alive, can it continue ......I hope this love is in their hearts, waiting for a reunion or the next encounter.